When running lots of applications, one may notice a moment where no more windows can be opened. This is the Desktop Heap limit; you will see this logged in the Event log as “A desktop heap allocation failed”
Back when I was running Windows Xp I hit this limit quite often (because of my working habits). The solution was to increase the limit; for this one needs to edit a specific registry key (always backup first!):
It is more and more obvious that while Thunderbird and Firefox are awesome programs, lately Mozilla is starting to implement design “features” which, while appealing and useful for a new/novice user, are a hassle for old power users…
I’m in a cleaning frenzy today, so using WinDirStat I’ve begun to inspect every little corner of my Windows partition for wasteful unnecessary and leftover files.
One of the places that always bugged my for taking up space is the Windows\Installer folder…
One of the gadgets I started using recently is the “Now Playing” gadget.
One issue I noticed though is its inability to display the trackname for tracks which lack the ID3 tag. The widget would just switch to its “Play a file in Winamp” message. So after a bit of tinkering, I managed to get it to use the track filename and display that instead…
Windows Xp reads information from media to let you find out properties (width, height, bitrate and/or others) of avi, mpg, asf, etc. files. This “behavior” can lock your avi files from being deleted, moved or renamed, and sometimes it’s just plain annoying. To disable this action, use Regedit to delete …
This error might occur if Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) components are missing or not registered correctly. This error manifest itself, among others, by not displaying any more processor information in System Properties, and by returning a “Class no registered” error message after running the “systeminfo” command. Registering the WMI components …
If you’ve ever needed to expand and restore multiple files from the Windows Xp CD (and don’t want to run expand for each file by hand), the following batch file might come in handy: @echo off setlocal set List=X:\path\*.ex_ for /f “delims=” %%a in (‘dir /b “%List%”‘) do expand %%a …
